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of the mount. The top of the tower was formed in- 

 to battlements, over which stones and mifsile wea- 

 pons could be thrown upon the afsailants, when they 

 attempted to come near the foundation of the build- 

 ing, either with an intention to force the entry or to 

 undermine the structure, without exposing the be- 

 sieged to the smallest danger. The accefs to the 

 different apartments within the keep, was by means 

 of a stair in the heart of the wall, exactly similar to 

 the stairs in the dhunes, if you take into view no- 

 thing more than the ascent of one flight of steps, but 

 agreeing in no other particular ; for the stair in the 

 keep always terminated in a door leading into the 

 circular apartment that occupied the whole internal 

 area of the structure, from which also there was ano- 

 ther door, entering into the bottom of the flight of 

 steps, ascending to the next floor ; whereas the stair 

 in the dhune had no door that opened into the inter- 

 nal area at all, except at the bottom only ; each 

 flight of steps terminating in a gallery that ran quite 

 round the building, till it reached the second flight of 

 steps, and so on, as has been illustrated in our last 

 number, page 55 ; but no mark of any such galleries 

 has ever been discovered in the keeps ; neither is 

 there ever found in tlie dhunes, any mark of holes 

 for receiving the ends of beams of wood to suppor 

 the floors. 



In the keeps also, the under part of the tower, 

 which was deep within tlie bowels of the moTint, and 

 consequently dark, vyas appropriated for containing 

 stores to the garjison, and, as the well was at the bot- 

 rom of the whole, aiid directly in the center ofilic 

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